It’s New Year’s Eve, so I spent part of the day setting up my goals for the New Year. I’m not a fan of big, grandiose resolutions, but I like setting and tracking small, attainable goals.
In the past, I’ve set monthly goals I’ve had spotty success with–some months I stay on track, and other months I don’t–so this year I’ve decided to take the advice of a CNN story on Monday resolutions, setting up a recurring reminder on my Monday to-do list to review my goals for the previous week.
Most of my goals for 2019 are the same as my goals for 2018. Each day, I want to meditate, write in my journal, log at least 15,000 steps, and take and post to Flickr at least one photo. Each week, I want to blog at least three times and write at least one letter. Each month, I want to go to a museum once and the Zen Center twice. And over the course of the year, I want to read at least 50 books.
I know from the past that I tend to meet my daily meditation, photo-taking, and step-count goals as well as my annual reading goal. I’m far less faithful when it comes to blogging, museum and Zen Center attendance, and letter-writing: given my work and household obligations, those activities are the first to fall to the wayside. But the whole point of goal-setting is to give oneself a push, so I welcome the excuse of a New Year to get a New Start. If nothing else, sitting down and deciding what you want to do in the New Year is inspiring, even if you sometimes fall short of your goals.
Dec 31, 2018 at 10:11 pm
Happy New Year, Lorianne! 🙂
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Jan 1, 2019 at 9:50 am
Thank you, Didi. Happy New Year to you, too.
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Jan 1, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Bonne nouvelle année! Tout de bon pour l’an 2019.
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Jan 1, 2019 at 12:22 pm
Thank you, and happy New Year to you, too.
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Jan 1, 2019 at 5:55 pm
Happy New Year! Those sound like worthy goals. I didn’t set any formal resolutions this year but I have a few loose intentions buzzing around in my brain — pretty similar to yours, actually!
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Jan 1, 2019 at 6:19 pm
Happy New Year to you, too. For years I resisted making resolutions, but I’ve come to enjoy the goal-tracking aspect of general intentions.
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Jan 1, 2019 at 7:39 pm
Loved the CNN article and plan to use it in 2019!
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Jan 1, 2019 at 7:40 pm
It’s a brilliant idea, isn’t it?
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Jan 4, 2019 at 6:45 am
Happy New Year to you! Hurray for achieving small goals instead of failing at big, lofty ones!
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Jan 4, 2019 at 7:38 am
Small goals are the only ones I can manage. 😊
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Dec 31, 2019 at 7:39 pm
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